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Zeptember 2

God forbid you’re depending on me for your Led Zeppelin news, but
in case you missed it, here’s the scoop, extracted from an article in
Billboard:

“Legendary rock combo Led Zeppelin is reforming, but for one night
only. The British band will play a one-off show at London's 22,000-capacity O2
arena on Nov. 26 as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder and
chairman emeritus Ahmet Ertegun, who died last December. The band recorded for
Atlantic its entire career.

“The Who's Pete Townshend, former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman,
Foreigner's Mick Jones and Paolo Nutini will also perform at the event. Profits
will benefit the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which provides scholarships to
universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Ertegun's homeland,
Turkey.

“Tickets costing £125 ($254) will be allocated on a lottery basis
through the Ahmettribute.com web site. Billboard.com understands there are no
plans to broadcast or commercially release music from the show.

“Putting an end to several months of speculation, it was confirmed
today (Sept. 13) during a press conference at the O2 that the three surviving
members of Led Zeppelin -- Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones --
would reunite onstage for just the third time in 27 years. The drummer for the
evening will be Jason Bonham, son of the band's original drummer John Bonham,
who died from a heart attack in 1980...

“[Promoter Harvey] Goldsmith also downplayed prospects of a larger
Zeppelin reunion. "The band members are getting along really well at the
moment, but there's no talk of them making a new record off the back of
this," he noted…”